Day: May 14, 2024

Nigerian Govt Suspends Cybersecurity Levy

Ganiyu Amodu

The Federal Government has suspended the controversial 0.5% cybersecurity levy on electronic banking transactions. Nigeria’s Minister of Information and National Orientation Mohammed Idris said President Bola Tinubu ordered the suspension following deliberations by members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). READ ALSO Jailed For Life, Court Imprisons Nigerian Man Who Killed Wife In UK How Senior Nigerian Customs Officer Committed Suicide How Enugu Govt Awarded N100bn Contract To 4 Day-Old Company Wife Loses Eye, Son Dies, Tragedy Hits Football Star Babangida’s Family The minister spoke at the State House in…

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Jailed For Life, Court Imprisons Nigerian Man Who Killed Wife In UK

Ganiyu Amodu

A Nigerian, Olubunmi Abodunde, who murdered his wife, Taiwo, with a skateboard and blamed his loss of control on medication has been jailed for life in the United Kingdom. Media reports had indicated that Abodunde, 48, a resident of Exning Road, in Newmarket, Suffolk killed his wife on 28 November, 2023. He admitted to killing Taiwo, who suffered “catastrophic brain injuries”, according to BBC reports. Ipswich Crown Court heard “a degree of ferocity” was involved in her death at the couple’s family home in Exning Road. Abodunde must spend a…

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How Senior Nigerian Customs Officer Committed Suicide

Ganiyu Amodu

. Details of sad news that happened weeks after a deputy commissioner of police killed himself by hanging with a noose   A Chief Superintendent of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Abdulwahab Magaji, has tragically taken his life with a gun, a month after a deputy commissioner of police serving with the FCID in Lagos killed himself by hanging with a noose. According to reports, Magaji, who served at the Customs headquarters in Abuja, reportedly shot himself with a pump-action riffle at his residence in Kano a few days ago.…

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How Enugu Govt Awarded N100bn Contract To 4 Day-Old Company

Ganiyu Amodu

. “We smell a rat,” Labour Party speaks on what it knew about deals   The Enugu State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has called on Nigeria’s anticorruption agencies to investigate the agriculture partnership agreement recently signed between the Enugu State Government and Pragmatic Farms Limited alleging that the transaction might be a conduit to siphon the resources of the state. The party, in a statement on Sunday signed by its Chairman, Comrade Casmir Uchenna Agbo, and Publicity Secretary, Onuora Odo, questioned the propriety of the transaction, pointing out…

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Wife Loses Eye, Son Dies, Tragedy Hits Football Star Babangida’s Family

Ganiyu Amodu

▪️ Details of car crash that left the family of football in anguish   There appears to be no respite for former Nigerian international, Tijani Babangida, as his son who is about a year old has died from injuries he sustained in the fatal road accident that claimed the life of his father’s brother, Ibrahim Babangida. On Thursday, May 10, 2024, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics gold medalist, his wife, brother, son, and maid were involved in a ghastly accident along the Zaria-Kaduna road. While his younger brother Ibrahim died on…

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UNILORIN Gets 40 New Professors

Abibat Babalola

No fewer than 40 of the senior academic staff of the University of Ilorin(UNILORIN) have been promoted to the rank of professor. This was made known in the university’s bulletin issued on Monday, According to the bulletin, the elevation was approved by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, SAN. The publication revealed that the 40 distinguished scholars were found to have excelled in the realms of teaching, research and community service, thus promoted to the highest rank attainable in academia. READ ALSO: Fubara To Probe Wike’s Administration, Set Up…

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Fubara To Probe Wike’s Administration, Set Up Panel Of Inquiry

Abibat Babalola

The Governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has disclosed that the state government would set up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate how the affairs of governance were conducted in the State before he assumed office. Fubara spoke while swearing in Mr Dagogo Iboroma, a Senior Advocate of Nogeria, as the new Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of the State at Government House in Port Harcourt. The Governor told Iboroma that he chose to bring him in as the Attorney-General at this time, noting that the moment was…

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How Gunmen Killed PoS Operator In Ogun State

Abibat Babalola

Two gunmen on motorcycle on Sunday evening, at about 6pm reportedly shot dead, one Mutiu Salako, a Point of Sale (PoS) operator around Oke Lantoro in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital. A viral WhatsApp message alerting members of the public to the incident claimed that the attack was cult-related. It says “one man down as suspected cultist shot a lotto shop owner dead in Oke-Lantoro area of Abeokuta city. “The police has deposited the corpse at state hospital morgue, sokenu road”. READ ALSO: ‘Tough Skin’ Finidi Pledges Six Points From Bafana,…

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‘Tough Skin’ Finidi Pledges Six Points From Bafana, Cheetahs Matches

ADEOLA YUSUF

Super Eagles head coach, Finidi George, has vowed to pick six points against Bafana Bafana of South Africa and the Cheetahs of Benin Republic in their World Cup qualifying ties. George evinced quiet confidence. He stated that he will invite for international assignments, only players who feature regularly at their clubs either in Nigeria or in the diaspora, and promised that the Super Eagles will remain even more competitive in the years ahead. “My first target is to make sure that we are in line to qualify for the 2026…

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Tariff Hike: Labour Unions Ground TCN, NERC, DisCos’ Operations Nationwide

Ganiyu Amodu

The organised labour led by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Monday, grounded operations of the Nigerian electricity supply industry as the made real their threat of picketing operators of the industry. Their action was sequel to the increase in the electricity tariff which has seen many concerns having their bill shoot up in such an astromical manner. The unions had on Sunday sent notices of their protests to their units across the country, reconfirming with clear instructions on their modus operandi. They demanded a…

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